Six Hundred and Eighty. The Last Enemy of NBA

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Event goal: Prevent Chris Paul from winning the 2010-2011 regular season MVP.

Event reward: Special card Deron Williams’ gratitude.”

Gratitude? Not thanks?

Sun Ce felt strange when he saw the name of this special card.

Maybe it’s because of the current environment. It’s hard to have so-called “enemies for life”. James and Wade were also regarded as “enemies for life”. Wade won the championship in the finals in 2006, and James won the championship in the finals in 2007. Although he didn’t win the championship, he experienced the highest stage of the NBA. The two were players of the same class, and the media gave them the gimmick of “enemies for life”.

But the two of them played together, and since then, there is no such thing as “enemies for life”.

So Sun Ce, who is currently playing in the NBA, doesn’t quite understand how deep the grudge between Deron and Paul is, or how strong the two want to compete with each other. It has reached the point where if the other party doesn’t get the MVP under the conditions to get the MVP, he will be grateful to the person who got the MVP.

But if you think about the older generation of players, you can understand it. Paul and Deron can barely be considered the tail of the old era.

"Little Fatty and Brother Pao are actually the last pair of mortal enemies. I really didn't expect it..."

Just when Sun Ce was surprised at Deron's obsession with Paul, Deron saw that Sun Ce did not refuse, and thought that Sun Ce agreed, and turned around and left, as if he had said nothing.

This kind of thing, by someone else's hands, was a big blow to Deron's self-esteem, but he could only do this.

Sun Ce looked at Deron's back as he left, thinking of Deron's future, and felt that Deron might know what he had encountered.

The Jazz's revenge on Deron for forcing Sloan to retire is really rare.

It is completely okay to use revenge to describe the Jazz's trade of Deron to the Nets. There have been such examples in NBA history, sending an All-Star player in his prime to a chaotic and bad team. This player does not have the leadership ability to integrate a bad team, and can only brush data in a bad team. Over time, he really became a data brush.

For example, Deron in the original time and space had been brushing up data for more than a year in the Nets. When Garnett, who still had some strength, and Pierce, Kirilenko, Gerald Wallace and others were traded back, he was already useless.

So,

The Jazz were too ruthless! It was no less than the impact of Ainge's trade of Pierce on their reputation in the minds of the players.

The environment has a huge impact on a player, just like the Kings and Timberwolves. For so many years, the Timberwolves have played a Love, and the Kings have played an Evans, and there are no other talented rookies. And are all the high-ranking rookies they selected really fake? It depends on one's opinion.

Sun Ce walked onto the court, waiting for the game to start, and Sun Ce returned his attention to the event itself.

There was no punishment for this incident, so Sun Ce did not have the urge to strangle Deron.

However, Sun Ce has used this special card before. He had been recognized by Iverson and recognized by his brother. Sun Ce didn't have a good chance to use the latter card. Last summer, he was too busy with the World Championships, so he used the special card recognized by Iverson.

Through Iverson's recognition, Sun Ce knew that this special card is based on the conditions that the user has the idea of ​​guidance, or has the tendency to agree to the request, and has a good impression of him, Sun, etc., to strengthen that kind of "goodwill".

If such "goodwill" is not achieved, the special card will not be obtained.

Learning pick-and-roll with Deron... Sun Ce certainly wants to learn this. Sun Ce really wants to learn the pick-and-roll teaching of the ball handler in the double-kill system.

But there was a precedent that Reggie Miller was unwilling to teach him three-pointers. Sun Ce heard about this from Tim Hardaway because he learned mid-range shots from Jordan. With the mentality of the old players of that era, even if he went to visit, Stockton probably wouldn't pay attention to him.

People of that era were arrogant, so he could only start with this incident.

Sun Ce felt that it was too difficult to grab the MVP directly. He would definitely not miss the opportunity, but it was really too difficult. His status as a second-year player alone made it more difficult to get the MVP.

However, the goal of the event was to prevent Paul from getting the MVP. There were two ways to achieve this. One was to get the MVP directly. Without a doubt, this would definitely get Deron's gratitude.

The other was that someone else got the MVP, but he might not really get Deron's gratitude, unless he became a key factor in Paul not getting the MVP, such as giving Paul or Paul's team a blow in a head-on confrontation as another MVP competitor, reducing Paul's impression on the media, experts, and announcers in the MVP voting.

"Let's take it one step at a time! There's still half a month before we play the Knicks, and we'll think of a way then..."

...

At 3:30 p.m., the Grizzlies' away game against the Nets started.

Before the game, they were still happily talking about abusing the guns together. Although they only exchanged one sentence, they had a consensus.

But in the game, Deron saw Sun Ce and played with unprecedented enthusiasm since joining the Nets.

It was not the previous aggressiveness of grabbing the ball to brush up the stats, but he devoted himself to shooting, passing, and pick-and-roll cooperation with his old teammate Chris Humphries.

After half a month of depression, Deron saw Sun Ce and was ready to start working hard. Although he knew that the future was bleak when he came to such a bad team, he was unwilling to accept his fate.

The Nets' current general manager Bobby Marks is really amazing. Less than two years after the core combination fell apart, he formed a lineup of Deron, Vujacic, Travis Otero, Chris Humphries, and Lopez.

Vujacic, C+ level ability evaluation, 27 years old, in his prime, averaged 12 points per game, a career high. His defense and ball handling were terrible, but his running and receiving shots were excellent. He averaged 1.7 three-pointers per game and was the best shooter of the Nets.

Travis Otero, B-level ability evaluation, played as the sixth man in the Trail Blazers for two seasons and averaged about 13 points per game. He was delayed by the Clippers for a year last season. He came to the Nets this year and didn't play as well as he did in the Trail Blazers, but his strength was there. When Deron showed his attitude of wanting to play well, the strength of this high-quality role player got a chance to show.

Chris Humphries, 25 years old, ability rating B+, average rebounds, entering the peak period, on January 1st, he got a 4-year 44 million contract extension, the new boss is so generous.

These three players were brought back by Bobby Marx for nothing. It couldn't be better to form a good lineup of role players without Deron.

In the sixth and a half minutes of the first quarter, the official timeout was entered because of a dead ball.

Sun Ce returned to the bench and sat down, looking at Deron opposite. This guy, just now he ran to ask for help with a half-dead look, and turned his face and didn't recognize him in the game!

Fortunately, they were well prepared, and Coach Hollins prepared for this game very seriously. Look, they have Deron + Lopez, two players averaging 20+ per game, leading the team, with a double-double uncle, two pretty good role players, facing their defense and scoring 12 points in half a quarter.

Humphries and Deron were teammates for a year. Humphries, who entered the NBA in 2004, basically laid the foundation in the Jazz. Last summer, he was invited to join the Nets with a salary of 3 million US dollars. In less than half a season, he has reached a high-salary contract extension agreement.

With Lopez's low-post threat, Vujacic's stable open shots, Otero's impact, and Deron and Humphries' pick-and-roll, the Nets' offense is indeed good.

Fortunately, the opponent's inside line moves slowly. Humphries is okay. Lopez is as slow as a snail now. Randolph is showing off in the inside on the offensive end. Humphries, who has flexibility and rebounding ability, is not as strong as him. Lopez, who has confrontation ability, has no rebounding awareness and can't keep up with the speed. Randolph made good use of his advantages and got 3 offensive rebounds in half a quarter and 8 points in half a quarter, helping the Grizzlies to get off to a good start.

Sun Ce received two points and two defensive rebounds in this half quarter, which is not bad.

Because they were prepared, the Grizzlies were not surprised that the Nets played better than expected and had to rely on Randolph's explosion to lead by 3 points.

On the contrary, because of the constant emphasis, the Grizzlies players had the impression that the opponent had two All-Star players and was quite strong. Although they saw Deron's hit rate was awkward during the team meeting, they were not too surprised now.

Coach Hollins sent out a lineup of Conley, Tony Allen, Battier, Yi Jianlian, and Gasol after the official timeout.

Play steadily and use defense to deal with the opponent. This is probably an outbreak. Coach Hollins handed the game to the players and he was responsible for the mobilization.

This rotation was done very well, at least better than the opponent's head coach General Johnson. Why can it be determined to be better? Because General Johnson did not change players at all, the lineup continued to be tough. He really couldn't find any solution to the problem, otherwise he would not have been unable to win in the East with Harris + Lopez's lineup before.

Avery Johnson is the head coach. Unless he is given a five-man singles lineup like the Mavericks back then, don't expect him to do too much. He can only make fried rice with eggs. You can't ask him to make a complicated meal.

Deron's serious performance at the beginning brought motivation to his teammates, and he played a very good first quarter. After the first quarter, the Nets overtook by two points and entered the second quarter.

But the Grizzlies were very stable. After Deron scored 14 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, Tony Allen kept confronting Deron, and finally began to show results in the second quarter. The Grizzlies started the ratings killer play again!